Equipo Navazos La Bota 75 Palo Cortado Sanlucar

92 pts
Fresh Palo Cortado with concentration, touch of richness and a chalky bite. A single vineyard, single vintage Sherry to boot.

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A wonderful, youthful counterpoint to the older Palo Cortado releases from Equipo Navazos.

It's Palomino from the chalky, salty soils of Sanlucar, matured at local bodega Rainera Pérez Marín. It is a very rare single vineyard, single vintage wine - 2020 from Pago Miraflores La Baja, but of course that can't be mentioned on the bottle...

Fresh, delicate and ethereal with just the right amount of sweetness and alcohol (18%). Could age for many years, but as an interesting aperitif this would be hard to beat.

92 Points - "Navazos already bottled a very young Palo Cortado from Sanlúcar with the number 52 back in 2014, and it's now time for a new edition, the NV La Bota de Palo Cortado 75 "Sanlúcar." It's produced with grapes from the Miraflores La Baja vineyard in Sanlúcar de Barrameda from the 2010 harvest—even if the vintage date is not shown on the label. Fermented in stainless steel, it achieved a natural alcohol level of around 12% and was straight away fortified to 17.5% alcohol. This has developed very nicely since the first bottling, with more precision and character, and it feels more "palo cortado," with notes of aromatic herbs and a sweetish tone, hints of apricots and a very expressive and tasty finish. It matured in topped-up, 225-liter barriques (a rarity in Jerez) for seven years. 2,800 bottles were filled in May 2017." - Luis Gutierrez (The Wine Advocate)

La Bota of Palo Cortado 75 “Sanlúcar” is the second release of a groundbreaking contribution to the concept of palo cortado in the Sherry District, and the result of decades of experience and reflection by Eduardo Ojeda and his team. This is a palo cortado that, despite its relative youth, honors the strict requirements of smoothness, purity, and complexity that every wine belonging to this noble category must meet.


This truly delicate and appealing palo cortado is doubly outstanding for being a single-vineyard, vintage wine: it has been sourced from a selection of musts coming from grapes harvested in 2010 in the Pago Miraflores La Baja, in Sanlúcar de Barrameda. It was then aged in Sherry butts and in barriques filled almost all the way up (a tocadedos) in order to avoid excessive oxidation. For this first saca we have selected the contents of a dozen 225 liter barrels, which at this point were showing outstanding balance and delicacy compared to the remarkable concentration of the wine ageing in the six botas de cañón from where we withdrawn the first edition (La Bota de Palo Cortado 52 “Sanlúcar”).

Price Bracket $101 and Above
Type Sherry
Body Medium Bodied
Variety Palomino
Country Spain
Region Jerez
Reviewed By The Wine Advocate
Critic Score 92
Alcohol 18%
Size 750ml
Closure Cork

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